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18 Feb 2018 4:30:34pm

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M. Gregor is of course right in saying that Guantanamo represents thoroughly dubious pseudo-legal practices. My point was that the US authorities would not have resorted to such practices if the system let in enough evidence to put most of the guilty away.

Leaving on one side Hitler and Stalin, percentages of guilty findings DO reveal a system’s reliability. A US lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, said all lawyers and judges know that “almost all” accused are in fact guilty. Another, Maurice Nadjari said: “You can’t make a living defending innocent men.”

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